Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > noreply-git at alsa-project.org wrote:
> >> Author: Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de>
> >> sound: via82xx: move DXS volume controls to PCM interface
> >>
> >> Commit b452e08e73c0e3dbb0be82130217be4b7084299e in 2.6.30 broke the
> >> restoring of these volumes by "amixer restore" that most distributions
>> amixer restore == alsactl restore ?
Oops, yes.
> > Well, this control was once removed, and then revived due to complains
> > by users who have used it in mixer. Moving this to PCM iface does
> > almost the same thing, disabling an easy way to access it.
>> amixer utility should handle such controls without problems.
Yes, it should. I haven't yet found where the hctl functions break it.
> We have similar volume controls in emu10k1 driver, but having 32 PCM
> volume controls in mixer is not much fun.
It might make sense to show such controls only for opened PCM
substreams, together with the process name.
Best regards,
Clemens